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Free health screenings will be held tomorrow Friday, 24th August 2018 at E.F. Gordon Square, Dundonald Street, Hamilton (on the corner of Court Street and Dundonald Street) from 4 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. The screenings will be held in the shade with relief...

Medical staff and students will be in line for training opportunities after the Bermuda Hospitals Board agreed to link up with Johns Hopkins Medicine International. The BHB announced the Maryland-based medical institute was chosen for a clinical affi...

Ciguatera fish poisoning is on the rise with more than ten cases reported between the end of June and mid-July. A spokesman said the health ministry’s Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit had received 13 reports between June 29 and July 17 — up from f...

Two wholesalers have confirmed that they have distributed no products currently under recall due to salmonella contamination in the whey powder. Pepperidge Farm in the United States voluntarily recalled more than three million packages of Goldfish c...

Bermuda could become a centre for specialist colon removal surgery, a surgeon at the Bermuda Hospitals Board has said. Fitzroy Hamilton said results in Bermuda were better than those of top European clinics that use single-incision laparoscopic surg...

Free health screenings will be held today, Friday, 20th July 2018 at Heron Bay Marketplace, Southampton from 4 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. The Department of Health held their last screening as part of the series – Taking it to the Streets - on Friday, 22nd Jun...

Four people have reported ciguatera fish poisoning this year. The health ministry issues a warning about the illness which causes vomiting, diarrhoea and neurological issues such as tingling sensations and reversal of cold and hot sensations. It poin...

The island’s general hospital logged 430 incidents that resulted in harm to patients over less than five years, Bermuda Hospitals Board statistics have revealed. Of those, 28 fell into the three most serious categories of harm — 14 patients died unex...

“I” events: 18 Definition: event or error that contributed to or resulted in unexpected death 2 CPR in the emergency department 3 CPR in surgery 2 review of death in emergency department 1 terminal patient died while in surgery 1 lack of communica...

The hospital’s emergency department saw a “marked increase” in visits from road crash victims in May, Bermuda Hospitals Board said today. A spokeswoman said 159 people, including 22 tourists, were seen in the emergency department that month, bringing...